CTC playing the "its not our idea" card
Do you want them to lie or something? Too right it's not their idea. CTC seem to have some brains behind them.
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Cyclists can go through red lights- Boris Johnson content.
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Posted 3 years ago #
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Don't like it (left on red)
- you're adding an extra choice, that will always slow reactions - try standing in a Kentucky Fried - small menu - can the rswipes make a decision, current system is simple green go - red stop, alrady evidence to show that beyond a certain level that the complexity of signage causes accidents
- if (as a car)you're on green you'll get past a car turning right by swerving to the lhs - or the side that the cyclist is swooping into after seeing a stationery car
- I think in quiet rural environment it would be ok, but a congested city with angry, impatient, children/gps/cd,coffee/drugs impaired driving -- mmmmPosted 3 years ago # -
Have to agree that the title of the thread is wrong and misleading
How? I put 'Cyclists can go through red lights', which is a shortened version of the original 'Boris proposes that cyclists can go through red lights if turning left'.
So, not wrong at all, really.
It just sounded sexier than the full thing. All about marketing...
It's inaccurate and done to mislead. Or you did it out of ignorance and now trying to big yourself up.
Another scenario:
mk1fan sees Rudeboy from being murdered by angry motorists.Your version:
mk1fan murdered Rudeboy.It's a shortened version. There was a death, mk1fan was party as was Rudeboy. Less to print too.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Good grief...
Ok; sorry if I mislead anyone. I apologise if some people got an itchy ring over my evil act...
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You're not sorry at all and my itchy ring is nothing to do with this thread
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Eh? You mean I supposed to actually STOP at red trffic lights?
Don't be silly!
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Ralph Smyth, of City Cyclists, said: "This is the latest in a long line of silly measures the Mayor has put forward. Almost all of the deaths of cyclists caused on these junctions are those that are going straight ahead, not turning left. It is absolute nonsense to say this proposed legislation will prevent deaths."
If the cyclists concerned are dead how does this bloke know they were going straight ahead? And if that was the case what were they doing riding up the inside of a lorry indicating left at a junction???
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If the cyclists concerned are dead how does this bloke know they were going straight ahead? And if that was the case what were they doing riding up the inside of a lorry indicating left at a junction???
Riding up the inside of a lorry (or bus) at a junction or otherwise aside, vehicles using their indicators are hard to locate. If they recall the 'mirror, signal, manoevre' mantra at all, it tends to be practiced more as 'manoevre, mirror, boot it, signal'.
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I agree with PeterPoddy - traffic lights ? do any of you take notice of every traffic light? sure some but not many... if the route is clear and empty and you know the road lay out what are you doing picking yer nose at the lights for? does not compute? ;o)
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